Trump’s Renewables Permitting Thaw Is Also a Legal Strategy
The administration has begun shuffling projects forward as court challenges against the freeze heat up.
Scoop: I’ve learned the solar permitting thaw is real, according to documents I can exclusively report.
Contrary to what MAGAworld and beltway pundits want you to think,
It’s probably a maneuver for Trump to avoid losing in federal court.
Via @heatmap.news
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05.03.2026 17:14
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Bill Gates’ TerraPower Gets Nuclear Regulators’ Green Light
On lithium demand, coal, and compressed air energy storage
NEW in Heatmap AM:
✅ NRC approves fourth-generation nuclear reactor for construction
📈 Lithium demand to hit 13 M tonnes by 2050
🇨🇳 China commissions world’s largest compressed air storage plant
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05.03.2026 17:37
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Clean Energy Stocks Aren’t Yet Seeing a Boost From the Iran War
On Qatari aluminum, floating offshore wind, and Taiwanese nuclear
In today’s Heatmap AM:
🇶🇦 Qatari aluminum smelter shuts down due to Iran War
🧪 A solar manufacturer spills 300 gallons of chemicals
⚡ A Quebec company claims it can stop lightning
Catch up on all the latest stories with @alexckaufman.bsky.social:
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04.03.2026 15:26
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Independent Journalism Atlas
A comprehensive directory of independent journalists and creators, mapping the new landscape of independent journalism worldwide.
Want an easy way to find energy and climate newsletters like @sammyroth.bsky.social's Climate-Colored Goggles, @volts.wtf, @alexckaufman.bsky.social's Field Notes, my own @quittingcarbon.bsky.social - or ones on any other topic? Search the Independent Journalism Atlas: journalismatlas.com 🔌💡
03.03.2026 19:31
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Oil and Gas Prices Surge as Trump Warns of Prolonged War in Iran
On BlackRock’s AES buy, Chinese solar, and Canadian uranium
Heatmap AM’s top stories:
👆 Oil and gas prices surge as war in Iran has no end in sight
💰 BlackRock buys utility heavyweight AES
☀️ China’s solar generation, up 40% from last year, overtakes its wind sector
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Update:
01.03.2026 20:10
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Nothing quite like waking up to a war you have been warned about your entire life.
28.02.2026 12:16
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Trump Makes Headway on Plan to Build 10 New Large Reactors
On the solar siege, New York’s climate law, and radioactive data center
In Friday’s Heatmap AM:
☢️ Energy Department in talks on 10 new large reactors
🌤️ Trump admin starts reviewing new solar projects
👎 Support for data centers is deep underwater
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27.02.2026 15:07
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Coining a new phrase this morning: Reactor realism.
Reactor realists recognize the need to build more of the large-scale reactors we actually know how to construct and operate while simultaneously developing of next-gen tech.
It's about re-learning to ride a bike before attempting to unicycle.
27.02.2026 13:16
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The speed with which American voters are turning against data centers is breathtaking.
One comparison might be what happened to nuclear after the doublewhammy of "The China Syndrome" debuting days before Three Mile Island, except there's no equivalent in terms of Hollywood or industrial accidents.
26.02.2026 23:09
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a big bet on a fusion company that's *not* gunning for a commercial reactor anytime soon, but is already making money today by producing medical isotopes
26.02.2026 17:18
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Remind me next time you come over to show you my collection of his newspaper dispatches from his time in New York.
26.02.2026 12:33
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Shine Technologies Raises Nearly a Quarter of a Billion Dollars for Commercial Fusion
That doesn’t mean it plans to produce electricity anytime soon.
Scoop in @heatmap.news: Shine Technologies, the fusion company that's producing medical isotopes and plans to get into spent nuclear recycling, just raised $240 million.
63% of the funding came from Patrick Soon-Shiong, the biotech billionaire who owns the LA Times. heatmap.news/climate-tech...
26.02.2026 12:09
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The European Union has launched the world’s first emissions-based tariff—the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.🌍
Joe Hezir spoke with @alexckaufman.bsky.social for @canarymedia.com about CBAM and the future of a low-carbon economy.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/emi...
25.02.2026 17:18
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The Energy Department is financing the uprating of the two older reactors at Southern Company's Plant Vogtle.
25.02.2026 14:51
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Outside may be interminable winter. But inside Château Kaufman the pre-war radiators are creating the conditions to sprout dragonfruit seeds.
24.02.2026 19:56
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Blizzard Blackout Hits More Than Half a Million Homes
On geoengineering, Boston Metal’s setback, and French fusion
In today’s Heatmap AM:
❄️ Half a million in U.S. lost power in blizzard
👨⚖️ Supreme Court to hear Exxon Mobil case vs. Boulder
🌎 NRDC starts geoengineering research project
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24.02.2026 16:45
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Mississippi's governor on the data center backlash:
"I understand individuals who would rather not have any industrial project in their backyard... I do not understand the impulse to prevent our country from advancing technologically—except as civilizational suicide."
24.02.2026 17:09
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Boston Metal suffered "unforeseen critical equipment failure." No injured workers, no environmental damage. But now the green-steel startup had financing conditioned on hitting certain operational milestones that are now impossible, so it has to lay off nearly one-quarter of its global workforce.
24.02.2026 02:30
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Scooplet in this morning's Heatmap AM:
The California bill to lift the 50-year moratorium on new nuclear reactors has some new supporters since its introduction on Friday.
24.02.2026 00:15
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Renewables and Batteries Comprise 93% of New U.S. Generating Capacity This Year
On the California atom, Russian nuclear theft, and Taiwan’s geothermal hope
In today’s Heatmap AM:
☀️ U.S. new generating capacity will be nearly all renewables and batteries in 2026
☢️ New California bill would mostly end new nuclear ban
🏭 NRG buys New York City’s biggest power plant
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23.02.2026 16:35
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Sources with direct knowledge of the situation say it’s snowing.
23.02.2026 04:01
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So far, the big Northeast blizzard has only knocked out power for about 13,000 households in New Jersey. But New England is bracing for blackouts as the winter storm bears down.
Grid fragility is bicoastal. The bulk of U.S. outages right now is in NorCal, where high winds downed power lines.
23.02.2026 00:01
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And yet so behind on the un-banning trend
22.02.2026 23:16
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It's wild that California has had a ban on building nuclear power plants since 1976 — three years before Three Mile Island.
22.02.2026 22:06
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